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| On the outskirts of the Huawei campus in Shenzhen. |
The self-contained Shenzhen campus feels a world away from the skyscrapers of Shenzhen's central business district. Visitors may imagine that they are in a park, verdant and well-manicured, one with spacious roads and sprawling buildings spaced well apart from each other.
The campus dates back to 1998, and has 11 zones covering functions such as administration, manufacturing and research and development (R&D). Many of the buildings are designed by well-known architects, and feature distinctive architectures.
The administrative zone, zone A, was designed by Hong Kong architectural firm Liu Wu Suo in the 'prairie school' style. Prairie School architecture is characterised by horizontal lines meant to integrate the structure into the prairies of midwest US. This zone includes a man-made lake graced by colourful water lilies and black swans imported from Australia, perhaps a nod towards the "nothing is impossible" concept - swans were all thought to be white until black ones were discovered.
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| Huawei's Founder and President Ren Zhengfei's office is at one end of the lake. |
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| The man-made lake has a dining hall at one end. The lake hosts a flock of black swans as well as water lilies. |
The Huawei Exhibition Hall in zone F (F1), showcases the results of Huawei's innovation, including end-to-end telecom infrastructure. The same zone houses R&D functions - a full 45% of Huawei's workforce consists of R&D staff.
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| The "white house" at Huawei's Shenzhen headquarters. |
The "white house" in zone E is a Demo Center and won Huawei employees' favourite architecture award. It offers product prototyping, more R&D, and is used by joint research labs.
Innovation cannot occur without education - not just instilling the right mindset, but ensuring that all staff stay up to date on technological developments. Huawei University, in zone J, was registered in 2005. The facility in Shenzhen, one of 45 globally, focuses on combining empirical management theory with actual experience. There are over 700 full-time lecturers, supplemented with a part-time 1,000-strong workforce. The main building can accommodate 2,000 trainees and also houses an experimental server farm that takes up 7,000 sq m.
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| The atrium at Huawei University. |
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| There is extensive use of natural light in Huawei University. There were a number of dining options both upstairs and downstairs. |
Last but not least, Huawei hosts employees on-campus. Zone L contains staff living quarters in Bai Cao Garden (百草园) and a three-star hotel, Ying Hua Yuan. "Bai Cao" literally means "100 herbs", and lives up to its name with more than 100 different plants in the zone. While Ying Hua Yuan accommodates overseas customers and employees from elsewhere who have arrived for training, Bai Cao Garden features 10 European-style buildings and 3,036 rooms for staff, who may also choose to stay elsewhere in the city, commuting by shuttles into the campus.
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| Staff quarters in the Bai Cao Garden are modelled after hotel facilities, including a swimming pool. |
The staff quarters here are modelled after those found in a three-star hotel. Bai Cao club offers sports and entertainment facilities for staff, including a swimming pool, while a commercial street offers amenities such as a supermarket, beauty salon, and dry cleaning. There are medical facilities too, provided by the Peking University Shenzhen Hospital.
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Note: This report stems from a Huawei-hosted visit to China. The company sponsored accommodation and travel costs.
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